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Session proposal: Let’s blog!
Since I’m not part of the museum world (my doctorate is in English), I’m a little diffident about proposing anything to do with museums, and since this is THATCamp Museums NYC, I’m a little diffident about proposing anything NOT to … Continue reading
Categories: Blogging, Session Proposals
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Session Proposal: Timelines
I’d like to propose a session in which we look critically at one of the most familiar data visualizations: the timeline. Traditional timelines are static, but in recent years projects such as SIMILE Timeline, Chronos, and Verite have created dynamic … Continue reading
Categories: Session Proposals
Tags: crowdsourcing, linked-data, timelines, visualizations
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Session Proposal: Working with student digital exhibitions
Let’s have a discussion about pedagogy and learning around the use of digital exhibitions. We have tried a variety of methods at the Bard Graduate Center in our courses. I would like to share ideas about best practice and how … Continue reading
Categories: Session Proposals, Teaching
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Session Proposal: Finding a Balance Between Museum Collections and Digital Enhancements
Technology offers countless ways to enhance the visitor’s experience in museum galleries. As museums continue to search for ways to employ new technology, it is important to ensure that these technologies enhance rather than eclipse the collection objects on display. … Continue reading
Categories: General, Museums, Session Proposals
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Session Proposal: Web Content Management Systems and Museum Libraries
In this session, let’s explore web content management systems in meeting the needs of different types of museum libraries. For example, if a museum is using a content management system to archive their photographic collections, what are some criteria we … Continue reading
Categories: Archives, Libraries, Museums, Project Management, Session Proposals
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Session Proposal: Building iPad apps for galleries
Museums have been using touch screens for years, but the iPad gives us all a common and familiar platform for app design. Let’s spend a couple hours comparing notes on iPad app authoring tools and possibly even build a basic … Continue reading
Categories: Coding, Session Proposals
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Session Proposal: What API Ecosystem Do Museums Need?
The really successful apps and services we see today do one of three things: provide something fundamentally useful to other apps, collect together the already existing data and functions of other apps, or provide a central place for gathering all … Continue reading
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Session Proposal: Disruption in the Field
What are museums, libraries, and archives hired to do? Does this matter, and how does it differ from what they offer? I’ve recently been learning about Clayton Christensen’s work on disruption theory and it’s provoked some interesting questions about what … Continue reading
Categories: Archives, General, Libraries, Museums, Session Proposals
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Session proposal – On Representing Material Culture / ObjectVRs
I have a couple of different ideas which might be different sessions, might meld into other people’s session proposals, or might all belong in one session – you tell me! Basically, I have an ongoing concern that current representations of material culture … Continue reading
Categories: General, Museums, Proceedings of THATCamp, Session Proposals, Teaching, Visualization
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